Archive for June, 2010

YORK, PA, (June 23, 2010) Tickets are now on sale as TKO Boxing Promotions presents ‘THE BATTLE OF YORK 5” on Saturday, July 31st at the Sovereign Bank Stadium, home of the York Revolution. General admission tickets can be purchased in advance for $20 through the York Revolution Box Office (717-801-HITS, www.yorkrevolution.com ). Ringside seating [...]

By Babatis Banda: While it is true that these are probably the best two P4P fighters in the world today, they are surely not cut from the same cloth. The factors that have made these two successful are almost completely parallel and are so easy to see. It is important to understand these factors to [...]

By Dave Lahr: For some reason, Manny Pacquiao has got it in his head that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is afraid to fight him. How Pacquiao got the opinion is anyone’s guess, because all Mayweather is asking for from Pacquiao is a better financial deal than 50-50, which is what Pacquiao wants. I fail to see [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: My my, it looks like former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is still bitter and troubled by his 12 round decision loss Mikkel Kessler in April. In a column written by Froch at Thisisnottingham.co.uk, complains about a number of things related to the Kessler fight. It’s hard to [...]

Photo credit: Rafael Soto/Top Rank – By Jason Kim: On Saturday night, undefeated light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will be looking to bring pride and happiness to his new trainer Freddie Roach by defeating John Duddy (29-1, 18 KO’s) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. Roach hasn’t had too many pupils that [...]

From today’s standing room only media workout at the Jesse James Leija Champion Fit Gym in San Antonio, Texas JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ, JR. “At first I thought to myself, ‘Could I really hack it with Freddie Roach? Could I make it?’’

By Tom Graves: Over a year ago on the 2nd of May 2009 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the pride of Manchester Ricky Hatton was decimated in under two rounds by the now seven weight-world champion Manny Paquiao, since that astonishing night there have been a large number of rumours circulating around the [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (June 22, 2010) – Hartford super bantamweight Mike “Machine Gun” Oliver, the reigning New England and EBA champion, will be in a crossroads fight Saturday night as he continues his journey back to the top of the 122-pound division, taking on 4-time world title-holder Mauricio “Indio Boy” Pastrana in the 8-round co-feature on [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s nice that former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) was able to get by Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) in his stage 2 Super Six bout and escape with a narrow win, but Kessler now has to face the always dangerous mean Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) in [...]

PROVIDENCE (June 22, 2010) – New England and EBA super middleweight champion “Irish” Joey McCreedy (11-4-2, 6 KOs), trained by “Irish” Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, was having a problem finding a suitable opponent for his July 9th fight in the 8-round co-feature on “Let Freedom Ring” presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: Manny Pacquiao has agreed to all of Floyd Mayweather’s demands from the first round of negotiations in early 2010. Pacquiao has agreed to the 14-day cut off point for random blood testing that Mayweather demanded, which had been the only point of contention between the two until “Money” had recently demanded a [...]

By William Mackay: According to the BBC, the stage 3 Super Six bout between former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) and previously unbeaten Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) will likely take place in Montreal, Canada, on September 18th. This is one of the fight venues that Froch, 32, has [...]

By Chris Williams: Middleweight contender John Duddy (29-1, 18 KO’s) isn’t bothered that he’ll probably be facing a large pro Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) crowd on Saturday night when he faces the 24-year-old Chavez Jr. for the WBC Silver middleweight crown at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. Duddy, 30, speaking with [...]

By Jason Kim: You can add World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (26-0, 20 KOs) in the mix of potential opponents for new WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) to fight next. In an article at Primera Hora, Berto’s promoter, Lou Dibella, had this to say about a potential match [...]

The ten boxers lined-up for Prizefighter Super-Middleweights at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Wednesday June 30 live on Sky Sports began the countdown to the show with today’s promotional shoot at Sky Sports studios in London.

LOS ANGELES, June 22 – There will be some high heat thrown at Denver’s Softball Park on Friday, July 9, when highly-regarded junior lightweight contenders Vicente Escobedo and Raymundo Beltran meet in the 10 round main event of TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate.”

On Saturday, July 17th, two former heavyweight title challengers collide live on Pay-Per-View, when devastating knockout artist, David Tua (51-3-1, 43KO’s) takes on fellow hard-hitting contender, Monte Barrett (34-9, 20KO’s) in an exciting match-up of heavy handed bangers at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. The show, billed as, T-N-T at the [...]

By Jim Dower: On July 31st, WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KO’s) and Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KO’s) will be going at it in a money fight at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner of the fight will likely be moving up in weight to take [...]

History was made on Saturday June 19, 2010 at the 82 year old Taft Theater in downtown Cincinnati Ohio. For the first time ever a boxing ring was set up on the center of the stage and R&R Promotions presented a 5 bout fight card that entertained the crowd.

PHILADELPHIA (June 22, 2010)—On Wednesday night, July 14th, Boxing returns to The Arena in South Philadelphia as No Limits Promotions presents a night of world class boxing that will be seen all over country as the first show of the Comcast Boxing Series.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (22 de Junio 2010) .- Undefeated No. 1 contender JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ, JR. and his new trainer World-Famous FREDDIE ROACH were on dawn patrol at 6 a.m. CT this morning, running for 45 minutes, at Sydney Lanier School in San Antonio. Chávez Jr. (40-0-1, 30 KOs), of Culiacan, México, will take on [...]

By Babatis Banda: Against the odds, against all adversity, whether by chance or by design, this little man stood up, asked for a strong back rather than a light load ….slowly but painfully wriggled his way out of poverty and rose from the masses to the elite. Pacman, as he is fondly known by his [...]

By Shaun Campbell: European welterweight champion Matthew Hatton is set to take on former WBA world title challenger Yuri Nuzhnenko on July 16th in Hatton’s first defence of his European crown. Hatton (39-4-2 15 KOs) who won the belt with a convincing win over Gianluca Branco, is looking at a possible rematch with Lovemore N’Dou [...]

Three of The Empire Sports and Entertainment’s fighters were in action Saturday night, June 19, at the Conference Center in Niagara Falls, as former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, and welterweight sensations “Sting” Bwalya and Cecil McCalla all wowed the thousands in attendance with their skills.

JOHN McDERMOTT has promised fans he won’t be beaten by nerves when the bell rings in his return clash against Tyson Fury. Manchester Romany gypsy Fury (10-0) risks his English heavyweight title against the Essex man (25-6) at The Brentwood Centre on Friday June 25 in a contest that also doubles as a final eliminator [...]

Ireland’s boxers will be looking to heap further misery on the French this Saturday when recent Prizefighter winner Willie “Big Bang” Casey and reigning Irish Middleweight Champ, Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan clash with French opposition on the Yanjing Beer Fight Night at The Neptune Stadium in Cork.

By Chris Williams: I don’t understand why Manny Pacquiao is so concerned about wanting to get a 50-50 deal with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He is boxing for the people and not for money, right? Well then it stands to reason that Pacquiao should be more than happy to take the 40% or whatever cut that [...]

By Jim Dower: In the two fights that WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) has taken part in for the Super Six tournament, he’s been less than exciting in either of them despite winning both fights. It isn’t that Ward isn’t a good fighter. He’s certainly an excellent fighter with good overall [...]

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (June 21, 2010) –. Undefeated No. 1 contender JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ, JR. landed in San Antonio today. Chávez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KOs), of Culiacan, México, will take on Top-10 middleweight contender “Ireland’s” JOHN DUDDY (29-1, 18 KOs), in the main event of “Latin Fury 15: La Furia de México,” This Saturday! June [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (10-0, 8 KO’s) will have his career on the line this Friday night in his rematch against Big John McDermott (25-6, 16 KO’s) at the Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex. This is the rematch of their controversial 10 round decision last September. Fury, 22, won that fight by a controversial [...]